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Software Startups

Updated August 2026

Enterprise and consumer software companies building productivity tools, platforms, and applications that transform how businesses and individuals work.

Explore 19,430 recently funded software companies with verified founder contact information and fundraising data.

Total Companies
19,430
Total Funding
$384.8M
Avg Funding
$15.4M
Global Reach
11
countries

Top Cities for Software

Halifax
Istanbul
Santa Clara
Los Altos
Culver City
Vienna

Recently Funded Companies

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Halifax, Canada

Proposify helps modern sales teams create, send, track, and e-sign winning proposals, contracts, and agreements.

$3.9M raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Istanbul, Turkey

Sertifier specializes in the informal learning sector and offers software solutions with AI infrastructure and CV automation products.

$300K raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Santa Clara, United States

Kinara develops low-power, energy-efficient, and programmable discrete neural processing units to deploy edge AI applications.

$34.7M raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Los Altos, United States

VERSATILE uses machine learning and AI to optimize construction and industrial processes.

$80.0M raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Culver City, United States

CreatorIQ is a software to unify and power advanced influencer marketing.

$40.0M raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Vienna, Austria

Cortical.io offers AI-based solutions for intelligent document processing leveraging a proprietary technology inspired by neuroscience.

$6.0M raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Palo Alto, United States

Neosec leverages AI-based behavioral analytics to provide unmatched visibility and threat hunting capabilities to stop threat actors.

$15.0M raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Oakland, United States

Peach Finance provides automated loan servicing, compliance, and operations to enhance efficiency for financial institutions.

$20.0M raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Screevo is the enterprise platform to create voice controls on any software system.

$602K raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

AhoyConnect is a new platform that enables organizations to understand, scale, automate, and derive value from their community.

$3.0M raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Redwood City, United States

BriteCore's cloud-native core platform for P&C insurers unlocks business growth, increased efficiency, and a modern customer experience.

$20.0M raised
Sep 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

São Paulo, Brazil

Lexter is a SaaS platform that helps legal teams automate documents' analysis and revision using AI.

Sep 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Chicago, United States

Route is a Business Management Platform for Facility services industry.

$25K raised
Sep 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Santiago, Chile

Webdox is a SaaS CLM focused on large and medium companies in LATAM and the US.

$1.5M raised
Sep 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Dallas, United States

Class Sight Is an EdTech ROI & Compliance Intelligence Platform that transforms school districts software usage, saving them millions.

$250K raised
Sep 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

São Paulo, Brazil

Uplevel your credit decisions with AI

$1.0M raised
Sep 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Bogotá, Colombia

Finkargo is a financial service company that provides a trade financing platform for SMEs.

$75.0M raised
Sep 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Philadelphia, United States

We give businesses the insights they need to protect themselves from the constantly changing identity-fraud threat landscape.

$9.0M raised
Sep 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Dunedin, New Zealand

CodeLingo seeks to address the problem of technical debt by enabling software development teams to scale the processes.

$12K raised
Sep 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Oslo, Norway

Empowering businesses, merchants, and entrepreneurs to easily integrate ecommerce into games, streaming, apps, publications, and webpages.

$500K raised
Sep 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Melbourne, Australia

tikpay is building a modern ticketing and payment solution for transport operators & authorities - reducing friction in mobility.

$1.0M raised
Sep 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Boston, United States

Tidelift makes open source software work better—for everyone.

$6.5M raised
Sep 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Poznan, Poland

Autenti is the European standard for e-signature & identification. We provide a one-click e-signature platform for all types of transactions

$8.5M raised
Sep 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Patch focuses on building infrastructure for a climate-positive economy, starting with an API for carbon removal.

$55.0M raised
Sep 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Niemcz, Poland

Reef Factory offers software and IoT products for marine aquarists.

$3.0M raised
Sep 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Showing 901 to 925 of 19,430 companies

About the Software Startup Ecosystem

The software industry remains one of the largest and most active sectors in venture capital. Enterprise SaaS, developer tools, and vertical software platforms continue to attract significant investment as companies across every industry adopt cloud-based solutions. The shift to remote work has further accelerated demand for productivity, collaboration, and infrastructure software.

Funding Trends in Software

Software companies consistently raise capital across all funding stages, from pre-seed to late-stage growth rounds. The sector benefits from strong recurring revenue models, high gross margins, and scalable distribution. Investors are particularly drawn to companies with strong net revenue retention, product-led growth strategies, and large addressable markets.

Growth Outlook

The software sector is expected to continue growing as artificial intelligence, automation, and cloud computing create new categories and expand existing ones. Companies that successfully integrate AI capabilities into their products, address underserved vertical markets, or build platform ecosystems are well-positioned for long-term growth.

Software Funding Breakdown

Here is how funding is distributed among the 19,430 software companies tracked in the VCBacked database.

Average Funding
$15.4M
Total Funding Tracked
$384.8M
Countries Represented
11

Distribution by Funding Stage

Other25 companies

Top Cities for Software

1.San Francisco
2 companies$55.6M
2.São Paulo
2 companies$1.0M
3.Halifax
1 companies$3.9M
4.Istanbul
1 companies$300K
5.Santa Clara
1 companies$34.7M

Related Industries

Companies in the software sector often overlap with or complement businesses in adjacent industries. Exploring related verticals can help you discover additional companies, identify partnership opportunities, and understand the broader competitive landscape.

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